Athing Mu coulda won the road mile world championship and here's why

1) Nikki Hiltz easily outkicked Mu in the USATF Final

2) Hiltz finished dead last in the semifinal in Budapest

3) Welteji, Kipyegon, Chepchirchir, and Hull all finished in the top-7 in the final in Budapest

4) The course in Riga is a lot slower than the one in Des Moines where Hiltz only managed a 4:27.9

Remind me: what's the division called? Isn't it called the women's elite mile?

Mu was the first woman in the 1500 in July.

I think she had to interest to travel to Riga for a mile race. Her whole mood changed dramatically after she came back from Europe to US.

Kipyegon ran 3:50 at Pre a few weeks ago and Welteji 3:53. How did they get so much slower?

lol, 0/10 troll

Turns out Pre was accidentally a short course - they measured wrong and made it 109.344 meters too short. Whoops. So none of those times count.

Look I think he obviously meant they ran slower converted times.

It’s kind of like saying anyone who can run 28:40 on the track would have won NCAA XC last year. This was a road course, not a track. Chepchirchir (3:56 1500 SB) and Hull (3:57 SB) ran 4:31/4:32 today respectively.

And besides, the winning time was 4:20.98, not 4:24. 4:20.98y is equivalent to 4:01.64 for 1500, which is faster than Mu’s 1500 PR on the track, faster than Mu ran in a race in which she was outkicked by Hiltz.